We performed a comparison between Google Cloud Platform Cloud Identity-Aware Proxy and Okta Workforce Identity based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two ZTNA as a Service solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."The solution's speed, processing power, and user functionality are some of its most valuable features."
"Google Cloud Platform has the best feature for real-time collaboration."
"UI representation is the aspect I like the most about GCP, even more than Azure or AWS."
"The solution can be used for building the infrastructure on the cloud."
"I am impressed with the product's security."
"The most valuable features of Google Cloud Platform are the Kubernetes engine, CI/CD, and BigQuery."
"We do not need to learn anything new to use the product."
"The most valuable features of the Google Cloud Platform Cloud Identity-Aware Proxy are file storage, a collaborative environment, and easy access."
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"It is dependent on the evolution of your user base. It depends on usage per user, so the more sign-ins there are, the more expensive it becomes, so it works best for smaller companies from a financial perspective."
"It is a very scalable solution."
"Having a single sign-on to all our applications."
"Workforce Identity's best features include its user-friendliness and easy setup."
"The MFA part is the best. MFA provided most of the security that we were looking at with respect to the second level of authentication. Okta Workforce Identity provides a number of options with respect to multifactor authentication, such as the app, phone call, and text. These options provide different ways of logging in for users, and they were a lot more than what we needed. This is certainly a very good feature of Okta Workforce Identity."
"The support for YubiKey is really good because you don't actually have to type in your username and password."
"The ease of deployment, ease of use, and speed of delivery is what I like about Okta Workforce Identity. It is very easy to use. For a lot of software, you need to be trained extensively and have a very technical background. Okta Workforce Identity is quite simple. You can integrate any software into Okta. They've got a network of 7,000 applications that easily integrate into it."
"Enabled MFA to access federated applications as well as increased user satisfaction through improved provisioning times and more reliable processes."
"The support can be more efficient. Google has different layers of support, like layer one, layer two, and layer three, but normally, the response from layer one is not very useful."
"There is room for improvement in the tools and features available on the GCP. In particular, the managed databases and queues could be improved, and it would be beneficial to have more offerings in areas such as data science and data warehousing. Additionally, GCP could benefit from offering similar tools to those offered by its competitors, such as Amazon AWS's Redshift."
"Sometimes we face uncertainty when our internet connection gets disconnected. It becomes challenging to determine whether it's an issue with our internet or if the GCP has crashed."
"There is room for improvement in the pricing."
"I think that the solution needs to be made available in a local region of every country, especially in countries like Taiwan."
"The solution's security should be improved."
"The storage capacity of the product is an area that can be improved if it is made possible to increase it whenever you want."
"Sometimes, it just fails to get some documents, and then it resumes normally. Google should work to enhance the overall features of the solution."
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"The product is expensive compared to other tools."
"The integration with third-party tools needs to be improved."
"It would be pricing, which is a tough one because it goes against Microsoft. A lot of companies say they're a Microsoft partner, and they get all their software for free. Okta is like a luxury product, and it's not the most affordable one. I would say if they could work on pricing, it would help. Other than that, they've done great strides in developing a product that is really good. The companies that do see the value tend to invest in it."
"It's not compatible with on-premises installations, unless you host it as a SaaS. We were not able to do that. For example, imagine a scenario where the cloud is not available. Then, Okta will not work for you. That use case will readily fail because it doesn't have an on-premises installation that you can use to authenticate or provide identity and access management. If you have a purely on-premises solution that is not connected to the internet, then this will not work. This is one area that can be improved."
"In some setup cases, there are issues with attributes not going in properly."
"SSO and MFA for improved end-user experience, and protection against password spray attacks, account password self-service."
"The only area of concern in the solution stems from the fact that my company needs some help regarding the setup phase from a partner."
"The training is too costly."
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Google Cloud Platform Cloud Identity-Aware Proxy is ranked 6th in ZTNA with 44 reviews while Okta Workforce Identity is ranked 6th in ZTNA as a Service with 59 reviews. Google Cloud Platform Cloud Identity-Aware Proxy is rated 8.4, while Okta Workforce Identity is rated 8.4. The top reviewer of Google Cloud Platform Cloud Identity-Aware Proxy writes "User-friendly, easy to navigate, and intuitive interface". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Okta Workforce Identity writes "Extremely easy to work with, simple to set up, and reasonably priced ". Google Cloud Platform Cloud Identity-Aware Proxy is most compared with Cloudflare Access, Zscaler Zero Trust Exchange, Cato SASE Cloud Platform, Cisco Duo and FortiGate Next Generation Firewall (NGFW), whereas Okta Workforce Identity is most compared with Microsoft Entra ID, Google Cloud Identity, SailPoint IdentityIQ, Saviynt and Salesforce Identity. See our Google Cloud Platform Cloud Identity-Aware Proxy vs. Okta Workforce Identity report.
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